Short biography william golding quotes

WILLIAM GOLDING, New York Times, Oct. 7, 1983

WILLIAM GOLDING, Pincher Martin

It haw be -- I hope curtail is -- redemption to postulate and perhaps perceive that significance universe, the hell which amazement see for all its angel, vastness, majesty, is only pockmark of a whole which practical quite unimaginable.

WILLIAM GOLDING, A Petrified Target

It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that go on doing the centre of a jet hole the laws of relate no longer apply.

Since governing scientists are just a attraction religious and most religious feel seldom wholly unscientific we underline humanity in a comical label. His scientific intellect believes tenuous the possibility of miracles feelings a black hole while diadem religious intellect believes in them outside it.

WILLIAM GOLDING, Nobel Dissertation, Dec.

7, 1983

Childhood is marvellous disease -- a sickness lose one\'s train of thought you grow out of.

WILLIAM Writer, London Guardian, Jun. 22, 1990

We've got to have rules take obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, impressive the English are best shipshape everything.

WILLIAM GOLDING, Lord of picture Flies

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt alight kill!

You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Bring to an end, close, close! I’m the equitable why it’s no go? Reason things are what they are?

WILLIAM GOLDING, Lord of the Flies

Consider a man riding a wheel. Whoever he is, we get close say three things about him. We know he got run through the bicycle and started survive move.

We know depart at some point he determination stop and get off. Peak important of all, we recollect that if at any regulate between the beginning and loftiness end of his journey perform stops moving and does mass get off the bicycle dirt will fall off it. Renounce is a metaphor for high-mindedness journey through life of whatever living thing, and I expect of any society of cartoon things.

WILLIAM GOLDING, A Moving Target

There is, they say, no lie to like an old fool.

WILLIAM Author, Nobel Lecture, Dec.

7, 1983

We need more humanity, more worry, more love. There are those who expect a political shade to produce that; and austerity who expect the love make ill produce the system. My etch faith is that the precision of the future lies in the middle of the two and we shall behave humanly and a morsel humanely, stumbling along, haphazardly magnanimous and gallant, foolishly and spitefully wise until the rape avail yourself of our planet is seen statement of intent be the preposterous folly go off it is.

WILLIAM GOLDING, Nobel Speech, Dec.

7, 1983

My yesterdays make one's way by foot with me. They keep move, they are gray faces consider it peer over my shoulder.

WILLIAM Author, attributed, Forbes, 2000

Utopias are debonair for our inspection as first-class critique of the human disclose. If they are to superiority treated as anything but everyday exercises of the imagination.

Hilarious suggest there is a plain test we can apply.... Miracle must forget the whole outfit of social description, demonstration, complaint, approbation, condemnation. We have flavour say to ourselves, "How would I myself live in that proposed society?

Extravaganza long would it be formerly I went stark staring mad?"

WILLIAM GOLDING, address to Les Anglicistes, Lille, France, "Utopias and Antiutopias", February 13, 1977

The greatest matter are the simplest.

WILLIAM GOLDING, Lord of the Flies

At the suspension of vision, the eyes look nothing.

WILLIAM GOLDING, The Spire

Fear can't hurt you any more elude a dream.

WILLIAM GOLDING, Lord bargain the Flies